litfic
English
Alternative forms
- lit-fic, lit fic
Etymology
Clipping of literary fiction.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɪtfɪk/, /ˈlɪtˌfɪk/
Noun
litfic (uncountable)
- (informal) literary fiction
- 2002 December 20, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, “Seton Hill University”, in rec.arts.sf.composition:
- True. But as many genre writers who otherwise learn well in classes have found out, if they want to learn writing, it's hard to do it in a group that sneers at anything not litfic.
- 2014 July 18, Thomas Christie, Notional Identities: Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 202:
- It's a fascinating distinction, and one that also has the neat effect of moving the debate on from the contentious territory of the SF/litfic turfwar into that of value-neutral literary theory.
- 2019 October 1, Carmen Maria Machado; John Joseph Adams, editors, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page xviii:
- I was once described on Twitter as a “litfic writer” who was “Quite Put Out” by a genre writer's mindless repetition of the above tropes […]
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